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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I started a business with a friend to automatically identify things like this, fraud like what happened with Alzheimer's research, and mistakes like missing citations. If anyone is interested, has contacts or expertise in relevant domains or just wants to talk about it, hit me up.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Google Retraction Watch. Academia has good people already doing this.

https://www.crossref.org/blog/news-crossref-and-retraction-watch/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Legend right here.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What's the business model? (How does that generate revenue?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

We're providing review assistance and some types of automated replication to publishers for a yearly rate, and planning to sell subscriptions to individual researchers for $50 /mo.